… a brush-tailed possum, to be precise (geez I hope I’m right and it doesn’t turn out to be a ring-tailed possum. But they have a little bare patch at the end). Our possums are, I’m afraid to say, MUCH cuter than American opossums. Also, they don’t play dead.

Woozy on sugar overload, however, is an entirely different box of pastries …

This pic’s been doing the rounds of Australia; last I heard the bakery was in Darwin, but there could be some chinese whispers happening.

I don’t have the info in front of me, but I remember reading that this was in the catering area of the special events section of an Australian nature center of some sort. The pastries were for an event, when this was what they found when they got in. They took the little guy to the vet section for a bit to make sure he was going to be OK and then let him go.

Of course, I read it on the internet so who knows. But I hope that’s true

I’ll be honest, I was a bit worried that this little guy might have ended up with more than indigestion, it seems that there are a lot of foods that are all right for humans but can make animals really sick.

The left pawseee on the tum and then the right one on the side of the box. He looks like he’s gunna barf but i luvs it!

In NZ these guys are an enormous pest and hate to tell you this but we kill them with gay abandon. We esp. like them as roadkill cos then you don’t have to actually touch them. They’re viscious little ##*@#***!

Aussie brushtails are tough. Known as the garbage disposal units of the possum world – they heave the lids of bins and eat a wide range of foods. Obvi some things are not that good for them – but once off – if he has a decent diet – will be OK

For all the people worried about this article. It Brush Tailed Possums are protected in Australia and it is illegal to kill them so it is very unlikely that the possum was killed. If it is dead it would most likely be road kill, which seems unlikely from looking at the picture. I used to do animal rescue and was lucky enough to work with a few of these cuties and him breaking in and eating all the pastries seems to me, the most likely scenario. They often live in peoples roof cavities and if they live in the suburbs are not at all wary of people and will break into houses a bit like Racoons do in the US.

As a side note that knife roll makes me think its a professional kitchen not a bakery.

How about an exchange? I’ll send you my raccoons and you can send me your possums. My dad would feed the little bandits and now I can’t get rid of them. Oh, and how about some skunks? I found a family sitting in the kitchen eating the cat food. Fortunately, I opened the door and they left leaving only a little smell behind them.

The house I lived in before my current abode had high hedges around the living room windows. One evening, I was sitting in my rocking chair next to the window and watching TV or reading or somesuch. I just happened to turn to my left and look out the window–I don’t recall why–but there was a possum hanging on the window screen outside. It’s difficult to say who was the more surprised. 😯

I briefly lived in New Orleans in a shotgun shack and one night I heard rustling in the kitchen. A baby possum squeezed through a small crack between the roof and the back porch. He mangled a box of saltines.